Saturday
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Keynote Session: The Present and Future of Understanding Cerebellar Learning
Discussion Leader: Laurens Witter (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
3:15 pm - 3:55 pm
Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA)
"The Present and Future of Understanding Cerebellar Learning"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cerebellar Interactions with Cerebral Cortex
Discussion Leaders: Maxime Beau (University College London, United Kingdom), Jimena Frontera (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France) and Jessica Verpeut (Princeton University, USA)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Marlies Oostland (Princeton University, USA)
"Neuronal Activity in Lateral Posterior Cerebellum and Deep Nuclei from Mice Learning a Decision-Making Task"
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm
Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm
Christopher Vaaga (Northwestern University, USA)
"The Medial Cerebellar Nucleus Modulates Synaptic Responses of Freezing Related Neurons in the Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Gray"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm
Hind Baba Aissa (Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS), France)
"Cerebello-Cortical Coupling via the Medial Posterior Thalamus: Role in Whisker-Dependent Texture Discrimination"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Gregory Wojaczynski (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
"The Cerebellum Supports Cognitively-Driven Motor Behavior in Mice"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm
Andres Varani (Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS), France)
"Dual Contributions of Cerebellar-Thalamic Networks to the Consolidation and Maintenance of a Motor Sequence-Learning Task"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
Mark Wagner (Stanford University, USA)
"Shared Cortex-Cerebellum Dynamics in the Learning and Execution of a Motor Task"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Circuit Computations in the Cerebellar Cortex
Discussion Leaders: Da Guo (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan), Anders Rasmussen (Lund University, Sweden / Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands) and Natasha Cayco Gajic (University College London, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Ke Zhang (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA)
"A Disinhibitory Microcircuit to Enable Climbing Fiber-Mediated Learning"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Dimitar Kostadinov (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Dynamic Coordination of Climbing Fiber Input to Cerebellar Purkinje Cell Populations During Learning"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Shogo Ohmae (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
"Plasticity of Ponto-Cerebellar Circuits Generates a Prospective Error Signal in Climbing Fibers"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Salomon Muller (Columbia University, USA)
"The Computational Challenges of Learning in the Multi-Layer Network of the Cerebellum and the Electrosensory Lobe, a Cerebellum-Like Structure in the Weakly Electric Fish"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Stuart Behling (Duke University, USA)
"Behavioral Evidence for Dynamic Modulation of Eye Velocity Feedback Through the Floccular Complex of the Cerebellum"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Harsha Gurnani (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Coordination of Golgi Population Activity in the Cerebellar Cortex"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am
Elizabeth Fleming (Duke University, USA)
"Evaluating Pattern Separation in the Cerebellar Granule Cell Layer"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Being a Cerebellum Researcher
Discussion Leader: David Herzfeld (Duke University, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Being a Cerebellum Researcher
Amy Bastian (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA)
Megan Carey (Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Portugal)
Javier Medina (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
